Daniel sohuylbe



I UNITED STATES DANIEL SOHUYLER, OF BRIDGEPORQ GONNEGTICUT.

-METALLICYMONUMENT.

SPEGIFIGATIONforming part oftaaa Patent No. 238,059, dated February 22,1881.

h Application filed September 1,1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may oo'ncern Be it known that I, DANIEL SCHUYLER, ofBridgeport, in the county of. Fairfield and State. of Connecticut,haveIIHfflllfiEtl certain new and useful Improvements in. MetallicMonuments, of which the followingis a specification.

In the introduction of the zinc or so-called white'bronze monuments forcemetery and} other ornamental purposes objection has been made to themetallic ring ot' thewsame when i struck, and to their liability to bendby the slightest pressure exerteduthereon in shipping or handlin I Theobject of this invention is to overcome these objections and. to give tothe monuments of this class" greatenstrength and rigidity; andtheinvention consists incovering the interior of a metallic monumentwith a re-enforcing layer of cement,papier-mach, or other suitablematerial of suitable thickness, as will hereinafter more fully appear.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a perspective view ofmy improved metallic monumentg and Fig. :2 is a vertical transversesection of the same on line 00 to, Fig. 1.

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spondin g parts.

. A in the drawings represents a monument made of cast-plates of zinc'orwhite metal, known as white bronze, which is now extensively employedfor monumental purposes in cemeteries, mural decorations, and the like.

The metal plates. of which the monument is composed are jointed in anyapproved manner at their meeting edges,/ and the inner surface of thesame covered with a thick layer of cement mixed with woolen fibers, orpapi'er-mauniform thickness over the entire interior,

surface of the monument, and serves for strengthening and re-enforcingthe same so that it is capable of resisting in a higher degree thehandling necessary in shipping and %putting it-up without danger ofbending or otherwise injuring the walls. A monument so re-enforced has,furthermore, theadvantage that the metallic ring and vibration of thewalls, on being struck, are done away with and. greater solidity andresistance imparted thereto.

' In smaller monuments the entire space may be filled up with cement,while in larger monuments, owing to the increase in weight, an interiorlayer of suitable thickness is to be preferred. For this purpose theexterior surface of the monument is finished off by the sandblast, bywhich the character of stone is impartedto the outer surface of thesame.

Having thus described myinvention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent- As a new article of manufacture, a metallic monumentthe walls of whichare covered and re-enforced by an interior bodyorlayer of suitable cement, snbstantially as and for the purpose setforth. i

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my intention I have signed myname, in presenceof two witnesses, this th day of August,

DANIEL SGHUYLER.

Witnesses PAUL GoEPEL,

CARL KARI.

